William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman /tᵻˈkʌmsə/was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 February 1820
CityLancester, OH
CountryUnited States of America
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
I intend to make Georgia howl.